Google helped craft these laws. This is classic regulatory capture. In particular, it is banning horizontally integrated surveillance capitalism (which requir

Google helped craft these laws. This is classic regulatory capture. In particular, it is banning horizontally integrated surveillance capitalism (which requires the sale of data between the data gathering companies and the people using it), but not vertically integrated surveillance capitalism. In all likelihood, some companies in this ecosystem will be forced to sell at fire sales to conglomerates (like Google) simply to avoid having to comply with this law. Of course, this benefits organizations that are large enough to acquire the companies, and no one else. So, people with financial conflicts of interest are picking winners and losers, which is pretty much standard practice in US politics these days. I personally think this whole consumer tracking industry should be shut down. It should be illegal to gather the types of information that this bill regulates.